how much weight have you had in a truck bed?

so this week i am putting the rock into our rock patio. when i emptied it out a took out about ~3k lbs of rock and dirt in 2 trips, one with 2200 lbs and one with about 1k.

I went to get the new gravel that we will be filling it with and instead of making 2 trips i decided to do it in one. i entered the scale at 5600 lbs and left with 8650, so my truck currently has ~3000 lbs of rock in the bed, its sqauting pretty good but still about 1/2 inch from the bump stops. luckily they were just on the edge of town so it was only a 10 minute drive and didnt ever have to do over 40 mph

the truck is a 99 f250 light duty 4x4. besides blowing up an already leaky water pump last summer while towing a parts truck for a friend its never let me down.

so im just curious, how much weight have you had in the back of a truck bed?

and here is a before picture for reference

I went to Summit Point last year with 8500lbs of trailer and tools on the bumper and 5 BMW straight six engine blocks in the bed along with 3 sets of wheels/tires, a couple cylinder heads, 100 gallons of gasoline, a cooler with 3 cases of beer and 40lbs of ice, a pit bike and a few other odds/ends thrown on top.

I don't know what the weight was... but it wasn't "too much" for the truck.

I had a '93 S-10 long bed once that I got a load of sand from the quarry to spread on my lawn.....If i remember correctly the truck weighed 600 lbs LESS than the sand when I went across the scales to pay. I'm sure the guy loading it had a good chuckle over that. The drive home (with rear suspension sitting on the bumpstops) was rather slow.

IIRC, the old 73 HH we had we put in 3300lbs before the old bias plys started to squat. Pretty much filled that rusty old 8' bed.

7-lug hubs is an odd sight.

The best I've done so far is a heaping bedfull of split firewood in my '95 F150. No big deal really.

As a kid I saw my dad put near a ton or maybe more of gravel in a 1/2 ton mid 70s Chevy. It was a slow, bumpy ride home but the truck wasn't damaged. You could feel the bumpstops hit every time it moved.

Dunno, and the significance depends on the truck. What was squashing my Toyota would barely have been noticed by the Chevy.

Regardless, I've had trucks sitting bottomed out on their suspensions, tires flattened until I pumped them way up. Stupid overloads that I drove very slowly. Younger then, wouldn't do it today.

2002maniac wrote: 7-lug hubs is an odd sight.

yea the 7 lug trucks are all f250 light dutys or f150 7700's (same thing, different years), basically like a heavy half.

i just hope i never have to source a wheel for it

2200 lbs of slide-in camper in my 1990 F-250 HD.

Had a yard of river stone in there last summer too but I have no idea what it weighed.

Shawn

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I recently had 1,600 lbs of labels in the back of my minivan. Had to replace the $60 set of air shocks the next day. She was low ridin'.

I had a bed full of limestone and sand in my dually Ram. No idea how much it weighed, but that was my "oh, this is why diesels are awesome" moment when the truck was just slightly slower.

Go to quarry/stone purveyor and watch the Latino guys w/ the oldest, most battered, sway-backed trucks loading materials. It's awe inspiring.

I've never been in a position to weigh it. 8-foot bed holds a whole lot of dirt though.

I did have two pallets of pavers in the truck before - no clue what they weighed.

I've had a Honda Goldwing, and a full bed of topsoil in my Dakota.

Three yards of outdoor-stored (wet) mulch in the 8' bed of my Dodge 2500 4x4. I never weighed it, but the garden center said each yard weighs about 1000 lbs. Other than making the truck ride really well, you barely knew it was there (score a +1 for Cummins).

2002maniac wrote: 7-lug hubs is an odd sight.

If it's like most Fords, it's only 7 lugs on the hubcap. There are actually 5, 6, or 8 under the cap.

I recently had my K1500 loaded down with damp topsoil in the bed to the tune of 3 cubic yards, and another 6 cubic yards of mulch on my 1500lbs trailer behind it. The truck was on it's bump stops most of the trip and the trailer safety chains were dragging. I drove it about 20 miles this way, aside from the sagging, the diesel made it feel like I wasn't carrying anything.

2006 Ford Ranger 4wd x-cab with the 4.0l and 5sp auto. Broke out an old patio last summer as part of our backyard landscaping. I got a little carried away loading my truck with the concrete. First trip to the dump tipped the scales at 2650lbs! . . . .

Second trip was a measly 1400lbs

I left the yard Friday at just shy of 20000 pounds GCVW. The trailer is a little over 12000 pounds and the truck is just over 7000. That puts about 2000 pounds on the hitch and drops the back of the truck about an inch.

Getting going is rarely a problem, it's coming to a stop that becomes an issue when loaded way down.

Toyman01 wrote:

2002maniac wrote: 7-lug hubs is an odd sight.

If it's like most Fords, it's only 7 lugs on the hubcap. There are actually 5, 6, or 8 under the cap.

Nope, it's legit. Unique to the early PN96 F-250 "Light duty" trucks.

Not a lot of weight, but this is the most I have had in the REPU yet:

It was roughly 900 lbs of PT lumber from my old deck. It went down the road just fine. I am sure I will put more in it this spring/summer. I have owned this truck for over 10 years now, and I am surprised how handy it is for a little truck.

I took 3200# o scrap into the yard last week. The first load was 2800 # and the truck just laughed at it so I put almost everything that was left in the next load. 1800# of that was an old hydraulic ram that I had a heck of a time loading lol.

I had an e150 loaded floor to roof, front to back with broken concrete and dirt. If I had to guess I'd put it at around three and a half tons. Not only was the rear suspension on the bumpstops the front was to. Vans suck for that kind of work though, if I had a sawzall I likely would have cut the roof off so I could unload it.

The most I've ever been ticketed for being overweight for was a little over 36,000 pounds. An old employer refused to get apportioned tags and I got weighed out of state. Meaning the truck effectively had zero weight rating and they got ticketed for the entire weight, truck and all.